@kdavie07.bsky.social
Sailing past 60...
She's home - and the projects have begun!
17.10.2025 20:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A hope which has since been dashed. Paying bills took over.
05.10.2025 12:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
End of our 11th season aboard Sionna. It was too short - but we learned alot!
03.10.2025 20:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We live in a beautiful place...
16.09.2025 11:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Paint!
I begin to entertain the hope that she might see water this fall...
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Indeed, and you too!
31.08.2025 22:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Second coat of primer, following weeks of putting and sanding. And the new lower gudgeon casting has been fitted!
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Port side bottom putty is complete - and a whole bunch of clamps have come to live in the shop!
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the caulking continues.
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Restoring the mast step, and more sanding on the hull. Although the boat was rebuilt in the early 70's, it looks like they reused the original mast step from her build in 1924!
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Started filling some of those 500+ holes, and some more sanding on the port quarter.
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More progress, removing the paint. #Alden12.5
10.05.2025 21:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Meet "Otto" the autopilot - affectionately known as "George" to his friends. So if you're aboard Sionna this summer and hear someone say "George is flying", you'll understand...
02.05.2025 11:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Myrtle!
30.04.2025 00:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Started sanding and leveling the hull today. Taking the paint off, I can see the original scribed waterline from when she was made!
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28.04.2025 00:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Finally got a chance - on this epically rainy day - to fasten off the new plank sections. So nice to be putting this lovely boat back together!
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Test-fitting the newly configured wheel on Sionna.
25.04.2025 11:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Scarfing in new plank sections in the garboards. It's finally warm enough to epoxy properly!
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Bunging knots in White Cedar.
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Two new planks are ready for final fitting and glue-up!
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5 layers of paint, going back to her rebuild in 1976!
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Boat work is so satisfying.
29.03.2025 10:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The wheel rim changes its spots...
25.03.2025 13:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We watched flocks of these in the Little Shark River in FL. They have a wild erratic flight pattern that just made us laugh!
25.03.2025 10:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Steward Skiff restoration is complete! 13 months, almost 300 hours, and a bunch of new wood!
23.03.2025 18:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's not boat work, but it's kind of fun anyway.
20.03.2025 11:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@barbatsea.bsky.social
Welcome Barb! And "Hi" to Stew!
Happy to see you here! And thrilled that your open in Rockland!
08.03.2025 13:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@olive-rose.bsky.social
Happy to see you here! And thrilled that you're open in Rockland.
